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phenry9999
Sep 21, 2021Tutor
SpeedTest reporting 1/3 of speed that SpeedTest reports, how come?
I have a 1Gb service from my provider, and when I run the Speedtest (https://beta.speedtest.net/) I see 925Mbps down. Great. But when I'm on the router admin tool and trying to run the QoS Speedtest,...
plemans
Sep 22, 2021Guru - Experienced User
With gigabit and the R8000, make sure you have qos, access control, traffic monitoring, and parental controls all disabled.
You'll get the best performance out of it that route.
phenry9999
Sep 22, 2021Tutor
re make sure you have disabled
Going through them now and rechecking them. I was playing with the parental control originally, which is what started all this off actually. I really hated having to pay more for Circle for features, IMHO, should be part of the router which I paid a higher price for. Anyways, I'm checking these are all off now. I have an automated reminder to check for these regularly.
Thanks again.
- plemansSep 22, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Rarely, i've seen once in a while when someone had this enabled and disabling them didn't fix slow downs.
In those cased, I usually have peopel factory reset and reinstall with making sure those are disabled during the install.
that usually fixes slow downs on that device.
(just not the built in speedtest, don't trust it)